Dictionary of medieval Irish launched online
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Friday, June 29, 2007
The Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL) was launched by the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin this week. I've yet to see spend a lot of time with it, but it looks promising.
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